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4 min read Becoming Better Together

This is Why We Long for Community 👣 Even When We Don’t Realize It

PODCAST/WRITING | Finding ways of living and working together that humanity has yet to experience—and why we'd want to
Images of humans evolving from caves to computer slaves...

How do we find ways of living and working together that work for all of life?


An exploration of the one thing underlying our worldly misery—and the only viable antidote.

This post is also available as a podcast episode. Listen via the player or find the Miracle Project Radio Podcast on your favourite app.


The 'why' thread

As a child, I understood little of what grown-ups called ‘normal’. As a young adult, I tried to look like I had it all figured out, but I really had no idea what I was doing, let alone why I was doing it.

Deep down, I knew I wasn’t living for anything I genuinely cared for, but only after I gathered the courage to admit this did I start seeing new doors.

Fueled by a longing for truth, a dive into money, experiments with different ways of living, giving, and working, and an experiment in living, travelling and working without money, a thread started weaving into my ‘why’: community.


Survival in a world of abundance

Many of us in the Western world are working harder and harder to pay for the rising costs of an economy that doesn’t know what ’enough’ means. More and more of us feel that the treadmill we’re on isn’t logical, healthy or productive.

And money is not to blame.

Like any instrument, the creation and use of money reflect collective and individual convictions. Following this, I’ve come to see all of our current crises (ecological, economic, societal, political, and mental) as a logical consequence of a single mis-take on what we are and what we’re surrounded by.

Much of our world is unconsciously built on the following two lies:

đŸ˜± There isn’t enough
đŸ˜± We aren’t enough

This constant and collective sense of lack underlies all of our mysery, separating us from each other, the Earth, and the truth—and driving us into a so-called positive, never-ending and incredibly destructive strife for economic growth.

There is enough,

more for you is not less for me (we only need to look around us to see the miraculous abundance that is life)

and we are enough.

Yet, in a way, we’re not 😄.


Debunking independence

We don’t live and act independently from the life around us; we’re part of an incredible, interconnected being, and we can thrive only when life around us thrives. And as I wrote in the first REconomy post, because we’re all sailing on this one ball we call Earth, life around us means all of life.

So this is my take now: the crises of our time are not ecological, economic or social, but a simple call to reconnect to the truth of our shared one existence.

Miki Kashtan, who calls herself a “practical visionary pursuing a world that works for all”, said it beautifully in a podcast, which I link to at the bottom of this post:

‘That we live as individuals makes us extremely weak. Extremely weak in terms of being able to create a good life. Sure, if we have enough privilege, we can compensate for that weakness by buying and buying and buying things and relationships and services, but it doesn’t actually give us rootedness, care, community, wholeness, reverence for life — all the things that make for a real experience of aliveness and flow.’


Debunking separation

Spiritually speaking, any search for certainty, security and safety is futile. These ‘things’ are in us, and that’s the only place we’ll ultimately find them. Yet we’re here, on Earth, and I feel that living and working in strong, resilient, and trustful communities based on connection and solidarity is an essential ingredient in healing our collective sense of separation, and with it, the planet.

I sometimes hear people advocating a return to a previous, more communal way of life, but I believe we need—and yearn for—a way of living and working together that we have yet to experience.

I feel called to build a full-time community that will serve as a training ground and a model for a healthy, connected, and powerful way of living together—with ourselves, each other, and Earth.

I feel this call in every cell and I know I’m not alone. More and more people are waking up, stepping into a life that feels like life and becoming a building block for a world that thrives instead of survives.

And I’m setting a high bar, not out of arrogance but sheer desire. I have no illusions about having all the answers—I know I don’t—but Miracle Project has at least one crucial thing: a positively stubborn knowing that it’s possible 🚀.


What's in a name?

Anyone serious about real, positive change is in the business of co-creating miracles on Earth. This project won’t be the first and not the last. It’s a Miracle Project, one of many.

We'll come back to the topic of community with solid evidence of how community can heal us—mentally and physically—plus essential steps, processes and practices in going from dream to team in your community, company, family and even love relationships.

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Cover photo illustration: Raymundo

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